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Seventeen dead in Parkland. Twenty-six dead in Sutherland. Forty-nine dead in Orlando. Twenty-seven dead at Sandy Hook. Fifty-eight dead in Las Vegas. As death tolls continue to climb and the frequency of mass shootings increase, gun violence has become one of the leading causes of premature death, killing more than 30,000 people and causing nearly…

“Bill Nye Saves the World” is a new show starring Bill Nye, a well-known and popular member of the science education community. The series description claims to “look at topics from a scientific point of view, refuting myths and claims that rebuke science”. Since Bill Nye is influential, this article seeks to investigate Bill Nye’s…

The transformation from traditional media to new media has brought forth a significant change in children’s lives – children today are growing up immersed in digital media. New media, consisting of the internet, video games, social media and the like, enables sharing, comments and discussion. It also primarily relies on digital devices like smart phones…

As summer approaches, it is inevitable that young music enthusiasts all across the country will once again flock to the many annual electronic dance music concerts, colloquially known as EDM festivals or raves, that take place all over the United States. These types of fair-like festivals, characteristic of multiple concert stages and hundreds of performers…

Scientists, researchers, and physicians alike still have not been able to pinpoint the precise cause of phantom pain, a term coined by Silas Weir Mitchell in 1871. Phantom limb is used to reference a syndrome in which patients experience pain or other sensations originating from a nonexistent limb. There may also be discrepancies between the…

Very few psychological disorders have captured the public’s imagination like Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). While often confused with schizophrenia, which is characterized by paranoia rather than dissociation, dissociative identity is a completely unrelated disorder. Dissociative disorders in general tend to be rare, misunderstood, and often debated among psychology experts. Many disagree about whether DID, arguably…

When people find out I don’t have Facebook, they always look so puzzled. “Why not?” they ask. It’s been two years since I deactivated my account and, yet, I still can’t find a coherent answer to this question. More times than not, I respond with an “uhhh” until somebody eventually changes the subject. I do…

Gone Girl. Some call it a traditional gothic horror tale that reveals the truth of marriage. Others have derided it as a misandrist revenge fantasy or a misogynist validation of every paranoia American culture teaches men to hold. Certainly, this controversy highlights gendered double-standards in the United States. But more, Amy Dunne, the main character,…

Summer 2014: A time for family fun, sun-tanning on the beach, and dumping buckets of ice water over your friend’s head. Nothing too out of the ordinary, except the last one spurred a deluge of Facebook posts and YouTube videos. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge captured the hearts of young and old alike, spreading awareness…

Doctor House. Doctor Cox. Doctor Lecter. These names, these titles—they have weight. Some of it is their pop culture clout: they are fun, they are snarky, they say it like it is (even if one of them does eat people, and another is a space alien). But there is something more than that. “Doctor.” We…